Walkable Streets

The New York Times health columnist focuses on how deficient community designs can undermine people's well-being.

The perception of risk makes people more alert, more accommodating, and more cautious. It's less expensive, too.

Some think traffic studies underestimate coming congestion. Others say an overly rosy assessment would hurt the consultant who produces it.

Though criticized, the grid has given us places of the most vibrant, lively, and varied character; places of every kind and every use.

The Inner Loop is a 2.75-mile-long freeway that put a noose around the downtown of Rochester, New York.

A professionally commissioned plan for a struggling main street is self-contradictory and illogical — and so is our collective approach to problem-solving.

"Neighborhood slow zones," bike lanes, and pedestrian crossing countdown signals have helped reduce fatalities to the lowest in a century.

A Connecticut expressway replacement is likely to be US DOT's "largest source of embarrassment since Alaska's 'Bridge to Nowhere,'" warns John Norquist.

A Canadian journalist on an around-the-world journey comes upon two new urbanist designers trying to remedy Levittown's defects.

New York's sidewalks are getting busier, which is good, for many reasons.

Ending the state aid system and instituting an accessibility tax would address the real problems we have in a substantive way.

New York City’s Department of Transportation has carved 54 plazas out of streets and other areas. More are on the way.